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ISBN10: 812082752X, ISBN13: 9788120827523, [publisher: Motilal Banarsidass] Hardcover Contents Preface. I. Starting points 1. Introduction. 2. Tibet as a stateless society and some Islamic parallels. II. Historical 3. The dissenting tradition of Indian Tantra and its partial hegemonisation in Tibet. 4. Tibetan Tantra as a form of Shamanism some reflections on the Vajrayana and its Shamanic origins. 5. Buddhism and the state in eighth century Tibet. 6. Shamanism Bon and Tibetan religion. 7. The Indus Valley civilisation and early Tibet. 8. Ge sar of gLing the origins and meanings of the East Tibetan Epic. III. Religion in contemporary Asia 9. Tibet and the Southeast Asian highlands rethinking the intellectual context of Tibetan studies. 10. The Vajrayana in the context of Himalayan Folk religion. 11. The effectiveness of Goddesses or how ritual works. 12. Women Goddesses and auspiciousness in South Asia. IV. Buddhism and other western religions 13. Tibetan Buddhism as a world religion global networking and its consequences. 14. The westernisation of Tibetan Buddhism. 15. The attractions of Tantra two historical moments. Index. Tantric Revisionings present stimulating new perspectives on Hindu and Buddhist religion particularly their Tantric versions in India Tibet or in modern western societies. Geoffrey Samuel adopts an historically and textually informed anthropological approach seeking to locate and understand religion in its social and cultural context. The ...

ISBN10: 812082752X, ISBN13: 9788120827523, [publisher: Motilal Banarsidass] Hardcover
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